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- Title
New Frontiers for Conditional Release: Applying Lessons Learned from Other Offenders with Mental Illness.
- Authors
Gowensmith, W. Neil; Peters, Amanda J.; Lex, Indira A.; Heng, Anika K.S.; Robinson, Kevin P.; Huston, Benjamin A.
- Abstract
There is relatively little research in the literature on insanity acquittees as compared with the large number of studies focused on the supervision and treatment of probationers and parolees with mental illness. Ideally, the latter literature could be successfully applied to insanity acquittees discharged from an inpatient hospital on "conditional release." This article describes the challenges faced by persons on conditional release as well as the gaps in extant conditional release literature. Then, five evidence-based models for the supervision and/or treatment of probationers and parolees with mental illness are applied to a theoretical conditionally released population (mental health courts, forensic assertive community treatment teams, the risk-need-responsivity model, informed supervision practices, and HOPE probation). Benefits and limitations are noted, and recommendations for such crossover are given. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CRIMINALS with mental illness; PROBATION supervision; PAROLE supervision; INSANITY (Law); PAROLEES; PREDICTION of criminal behavior; RECIDIVISM rates; MENTAL health courts; HISTORY of courts; MENTAL health; PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis; MENTAL illness; CRIME; CRIMINALS; FORENSIC psychiatry; MATHEMATICAL models; RISK assessment; THEORY; INSANITY defense; INVOLUNTARY hospitalization; DISCHARGE planning; LAW
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 2/3, p407
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2217